Hello. I just finished reading your story at
Should I Really Be Worried About STDs? (Video)
Please do a bit more homework before posting articles that are not completely based in fact and might *scare or unnerve others* that are already stigmatized by Hepatitis C and trying to educate their partners that Hepatitis C is NOT a sexually transmitted disease - because it is NOT. Hepatitis C is only transmitted BLOOD TO BLOOD.
While theoretically possible to get Hepatitis C during sex, there would have to be a blood to blood transmission of some sort involved. You alluded to this in your story but you certainly didn't make it very clear. Hepatitis B can be transmitted sexually but Hepatitis C requires a BLOOD TO BLOOD transmission. If a woman is having her period and a man has a cut on his penis that would be a blood to blood transmission. There is evidence that many people who are coinfected with HIV (especially MSM's) are transmitting HCV but it is thought that the anal tears are causing the blood to blood transmission. There are studies on couples who have been married for 30-40 plus years with only one partner being infected by HCV. Hepatitis C is already incorrectly stigmatized as a drug users and alcoholics disease. People with Hepatitis C are desperately trying to educate others that they can't get it from them by kissing, sneezing, coughing, hugging, eating or drinking after someone and they can't get it from SEX if there is not a blood involvement.
This site looks like it has some WONDERFUL information and I do hope that the younger people are paying attention. I have often wondered in this day and age of more diseases why blood tests are no longer required for marriage when *back in my day* of less known diseases we had to have blood tests prior to marriage. Be SAFE, be respectful, be cautious, use protection and take care of YOU! No one else will.
Meanwhile I hope you do a little better story about Hepatitis C and the ways it can be transmitted. You are more likely to pick it up at a barbershop or a beauty parlor than you are through sex. Unlike HIV which dies when it hits the air, Hepatitis C can live in the air for about 4 days. If a manicurist nicks the cuticle of a Hep C positive person and draws blood and then uses that same instrument on you 3 days later and nicks you and causes blood - that is a blood to blood transmission.
Get Tested for Hep C! Get Vaccinated for Hepatitis A and B! Also for HPV!